If your kids are buried in revision notes, blame young Master Gove

Spring has arrived. First sentence done. Phew. Just going to tidy my desk. Tidy desk, tidy mind. Does Hillary Clinton go with the politics books or the comedy ones? I’ll put her next to Ronnie Barker: alphabetical.

So to spring: daffodils up, lambs frolicking, and WH Smith clogged with indecisive teenagers staring blankly at revision cards and highlighters. I might just sharpen my pencils. Not for writing, but it’s good to have one behind my ear in case a workman comes to the door.

Anyway, this year’s revision season is especially difficult for the half a million guinea pigs taking Michael Gove’s all-new, tougher GCSEs, imposed before he had to be removed from education because he was upsetting the children. And teachers. And parents. Basically…

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